Transforming Growth Factor Beta-2 Mutations in Barlow's Disease and Aortic Dilatation.

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We report on a patient operated on for degenerative myxomatous mitral and tricuspid valve disease (Barlow's disease) and aortic root dilatation. A valve repair operation and the postoperative course were uneventful. Multigenerational genetic analyses revealed two different mutations in the transforming growth factor beta-2 gene in the same patient. The two mutations in different exons were inherited from both...

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